Snapshot Day 10/12/05 Data
(Salt Front RM 53.2)
RIVER MILE 59
Kowawese Unique Area, Plum Point
Location: Beach at Kowawese
Area: located in a small cove between a point and a bulkhead – sampled approximately
30 ft. from south end of dock/parking lot
Surrounding Land Use: Forested 20%, beach 50%, park 30%
Sampling Site: sandy beach, covered with vegetation, some rocks and weeds
Plants in area: 15% of sampling area covered with plants in the water
75% water celery
25% water chestnut
Water depth: 1 feet
River Bottom – sandy – some weeds and rocks
ITEM
Time
Reading 1
Reading 2
Physical
Air Temperature
10:30 AM
16.7C
62 F
11:30 AM
Comments
15.6C
60 F
Very choppy water
Wind Speed
Cloud Cover
Weather today
Weather recently
Water
Temperature
Turbidity
19-30
overcast
Rain, drenching rain most of the time
Rain for last 3 days – heavy at times
10:30 AM 63 F
11:30 AM
17.2C
12:00
33.3 (avg.)
NTU
Chlorophyll
Chemical
DO
(drop kit)
10:30
0.5
12:15
10.0 mg/L
18C
110%
12:15
12:00
9.0 mg/L
10.0 mg/L
95%
110%
12:30
7.0
18C
18C
6.7
12:00
Number
Caught
16
0 ppt
Species
CPUE
pH
Phosphate
Nitrate
Alkalinity
Salinity
Fish Catch
25 ft net/ 15 ft pull
Striped bass
65 F
18.3C
turbidimeter
Litmus paper
meter
Seine
*2 seines but
no note of
catch per seine
AVERAGE
2
Spottail shiner 0.096 CPUE
1
sunfish
14
Bay anchovy
* NOTE – No Herring caught – herring are usually the most numerous catch
when we seine
Seine #1
10:30
56 fish
0.0765
40 ft. pull
Seine #2
11:00
37 fish
0.05
40 ft. pull
Seine #3
11:15
5
.009
30 ft. pull
Tides
Currents
Traffic
Other Items
10:30 AM
11:30
Very rough
Many waves
11:30
Ebb
Falling ?
Large bay so current be
different in main stem